A PERVERT filmed a teenager enjoying a sun tan at a salon with his mobile phone a court heard yesterday.

And after dad of four Daniel Eric Livermore, 34, was arrested by police, experts found he had 14 film clips on it – taken of women in adjoining cubicles over a number of weeks.

Some of the shots were full frontal of the woman sunbathing naked, unaware they were being filmed at the Castaway Tanning Salon in Connah’s Quay.

Livermore, of Celyn Avenue in Connah’s Quay, admitted six charges of obtaining sexual gratification by secretly filming women. He asked for a further six offences to be taken into consideration.

He claimed he was glad he had been caught, and cried in court when he told how he was sorry and was ashamed.

His solicitor Richard Thomas said he had been fascinated by porn since the age of five and had something of a compulsion and was seeking counselling.

Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold, adjourned sentence and Livermore was bailed in the meantime.

Prosecutor Justin Espie said the victims were not only the women who had been filmed without their knowledge, but also the owner of the Castaway Tanning Salon.

The matter came to light thanks to a girl aged 17 who was using the salon and was shocked to see a mobile phone being held towards her from the adjoining cubicle.

Livermore was detained by shop staff, police were called and his mobile phone seized. He told how he was a regular customer, attending twice a week.

When the police examined the phone, they found 14 films of 11 different women, from eight seconds to 57 seconds.

“They show women in various states of undress including full frontal nudity,” Mr Espie said.

Mr Thomas said Livermore had no previous convictions, was truly sorry, had already sought help from his GP and was believed to have an obsessive, compulsive disorder.

He was a hard-working man with a partner and four children and it seemed strange a law-abiding man should behave in such a way.

“But it is something which has been building up for my client for the last 25 to 30 years,” he said.

When he was five or six he had been shown some pornographic material at the home of a friend and he had collected it ever since.

It started with magazines in his parents’ garage, the collection got larger during his adult life, and in the months leading to his arrest he started to make short video clips on his mobile phone. He was so secretive about his mobile phone his wife suspected he was having an affair.

Livermore was glad he had been caught and Mr Thomas said it was surprising his client had not been caught sooner because his use of the phone had been “so blatant and obvious”.